The Midnight Man
Chapters (70)
Title Page
Contents
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Praise for Caroline Mitchell
Also by Caroline Mitchell
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About Caroline Mitchell
About Embla Books
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2021 by
EMBLA BOOKS
Bonnier Books UK Limited
4th Floor, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4DA
Owned by Bonnier Books
Sveavägen 56, Stockholm, Sweden Copyright © Caroline Mitchell, 2021
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
The right of Caroline Mitchell to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
This is a work of fiction. Names, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4714-1146-5
Audio ISBN: 978-1-4714-1110-6
This book is typeset using Atomik ePublisher.
Embla Books is an imprint of Bonnier Books UK.
Praise for Caroline Mitchell
‘Whenever I pick up a Caroline Mitchell book I always feel safe in the knowledge that she is going to take me on a tense, thrilling, twisty ride’
Angela Marsons
‘Caroline Mitchell is one of my favourite authors … she takes the reader on a journey to a dark place where monsters hide in plain sight’
The Book Review Café
‘With her police officer experience, Caroline Mitchell knows how to deliver on plot, character and most importantly, emotion, in any book she writes’
My Weekly
Also by Caroline Mitchell
The DI Amy Winter series
Truth and Lies
The Secret Child
Left for Dead
Flesh and Blood
The DC Jennifer Knight series
Don’t Turn Around
Time to Die
The Silent Twin
The Ruby Preston series
Death Note
Sleep Tight
Murder Game
Other works
Witness
Silent Victim
The Perfect Mother
Dedication
To Jane Snelgrove, for bringing magic to my words
Epigraph
If you open your door to the Midnight Man,
Hide with a candle wherever you can.
Try not to scream as he draws near,
Because one of you won’t be leaving here …
Prologue
Monday, 31st October 1994
Blackhall Manor